Abstract Objective To analysis the publication of scientific papers of “The five” Chinese medicine universities and reflect the comprehensive scientific research ability of universities in a certain extent. Methods Scientific papers of “The five” included in the Web of Science Database in the last ten years (from January 2007 to May 2017) were used as analysis object, bibliometrics method was used to statistically analysis literatures on the volume of literature, including the publication of sources, the citation of papers, the influencing factors, the H index and the dominant disciplines from natural science and humanistic community. Results The number of scientific papers of “The five” was increased year by year, but the average influence factor and cited quantity were not high. In the scientific papers included in SCIE, Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine were the most frequent source of publications. In the comparison of dominant subjects, Science of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative & Complementary Medicine was developed well, but Traditional Chinese Medicine was relatively weak. The development of Humanistic community was slow compared with natural science. Conclusion Scientific papers of “The five” should simultaneously guarantee the quality with steady increase in quantity, coordinatively develop disadvantaged subjects and characteristic subjects of Chinese Medicine, further manifest the “The five” comprehensive strength.
LI Han WANG Liangbin. Bibliometrics of scientific papers of 5 Chinese universities of traditional Chinese medicine based on Web of Science in recent ten years[J]. 中国医药导报, 2018, 15(21): 35-39.
